Dear Colleagues,
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense.
The following link of “Nature news” may be interest to many of us,
http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763
With Regards,
Librarian
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